“…she [Josè Maria Lo Monaco ] creates a lot of enthusiasm. With her captivatingly warm and darkly luminous timbre, an agile voice that is slender despite its brocade character and with a very natural emphasis, she gives the vocal works a great deal of character. The Stile Galante ensemble delivers a performance that not only demonstrates all-round playing competence and musicological care, but is also very pleasing in its depth and variety of sound and a pleasantly unagitated performing. With continuously transparent instrumentation, the small ensemble under the careful direction of Stefano Aresi is able to convey a baroque opulence that is entirely its own…” ****